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The changes here represent an intermediate step towards bringing the driver within the V4L2 framework. Signed-off-by: Mike Thomas <rmthomas@sciolus.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* EasyCAP USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio, Model DC60 *
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* and *
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* EasyCAP002 4-Channel USB 2.0 DVR *
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Mike Thomas <rmthomas@sciolus.org>
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SUPPORTED HARDWARE
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This driver is intended for use with hardware having USB ID 05e1:0408.
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Two kinds of EasyCAP have this USB ID, namely:
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* EasyCAP USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio, Model DC60,
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having input cables labelled CVBS, S-VIDEO, AUDIO(L), AUDIO(R)
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* EasyCAP002 4-Channel USB 2.0 DVR, having input cables labelled
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1, 2, 3, 4 and an unlabelled input cable for a microphone.
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BUILD OPTIONS AND DEPENDENCIES
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Unless EASYCAP_DEBUG is defined during compilation it will not be possible
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to select a debug level at the time of module installation.
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If the parameter EASYCAP_IS_VIDEODEV_CLIENT is undefined during compilation
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the built module is entirely independent of the videodev module, and when
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the EasyCAP is physically plugged into a USB port the special files
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/dev/easycap0 and /dev/easysnd1 are created as video and sound sources
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respectively.
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If the parameter EASYCAP_IS_VIDEODEV_CLIENT is defined during compilation
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the built easycap module is configured to register with the videodev module,
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in which case the special files created when the EasyCAP is plugged in are
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/dev/video0 and /dev/easysnd0.
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During in-tree builds the following should should be defined whenever the
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parameter EASYCAP_IS_VIDEODEV_CLIENT is defined:
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EASYCAP_NEEDS_V4L2_DEVICE_H
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EASYCAP_NEEDS_V4L2_FOPS
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EASYCAP_NEEDS_UNLOCKED_IOCTL
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If the build is performed out-of-tree against older kernels the parameters
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to be defined depend on the kernel version in a way which will not be
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discussed here.
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KNOWN RUNTIME ISSUES
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(1) Intentionally, this driver will not stream material which is unambiguously
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identified by the hardware as copy-protected. Normal video output will be
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present for about a minute but will then freeze when this situation arises.
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(2) The controls for luminance, contrast, saturation, hue and volume may not
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always work properly.
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(3) Reduced-resolution S-Video seems to suffer from moire artefacts.
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INPUT NUMBERING
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For the EasyCAP with S-VIDEO input cable the driver regards a request for
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inputs numbered 0 or 1 as referring to CVBS and a request for input
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numbered 5 as referring to S-VIDEO.
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For the EasyCAP with four CVBS inputs the driver expects to be asked for
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any one of inputs numbered 1,2,3,4. If input 0 is asked for, it is
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interpreted as input 1.
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MODULE PARAMETERS
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Three module parameters are defined:
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debug the easycap module is configured at diagnostic level n (0 to 9)
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gain audio gain level n (0 to 31, default is 16)
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bars 0 => testcard bars when incoming video signal is lost
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1 => testcard bars when incoming video signal is lost (default)
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SUPPORTED TV STANDARDS AND RESOLUTIONS
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The following TV standards are natively supported by the hardware and are
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usable as (for example) the "norm=" parameter in the mplayer command:
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PAL_BGHIN, NTSC_N_443,
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PAL_Nc, NTSC_N,
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SECAM, NTSC_M, NTSC_M_JP,
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PAL_60, NTSC_443,
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PAL_M.
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In addition, the driver offers "custom" pseudo-standards with a framerate
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which is 20% of the usual framerate. These pseudo-standards are named:
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PAL_BGHIN_SLOW, NTSC_N_443_SLOW,
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PAL_Nc_SLOW, NTSC_N_SLOW,
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SECAM_SLOW, NTSC_M_SLOW, NTSC_M_JP_SLOW,
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PAL_60_SLOW, NTSC_443_SLOW,
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PAL_M_SLOW.
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The available picture sizes are:
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at 25 frames per second: 720x576, 704x576, 640x480, 360x288, 320x240;
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at 30 frames per second: 720x480, 640x480, 360x240, 320x240.
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WHAT'S TESTED AND WHAT'S NOT
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This driver is known to work with mplayer, mencoder, tvtime, zoneminder,
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xawtv, gstreamer and sufficiently recent versions of vlc. An interface
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to ffmpeg is implemented, but serious audio-video synchronization problems
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remain.
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The driver is designed to support all the TV standards accepted by the
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hardware, but as yet it has actually been tested on only a few of these.
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I have been unable to test and calibrate the S-video input myself because I
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do not possess any equipment with S-video output.
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This driver does not understand the V4L1 IOCTL commands.
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UDEV RULES
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In order that the special files /dev/easycap0 and /dev/easysnd1 are created
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with conveniently relaxed permissions when the EasyCAP is plugged in, a file
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is preferably to be provided in directory /etc/udev/rules.d with content:
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ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="easycap_rules_end"
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ATTRS{idVendor}=="05e1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0408", \
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MODE="0666", OWNER="root", GROUP="root"
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LABEL="easycap_rules_end"
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MODPROBE CONFIGURATION
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The easycap module is in competition with the module snd-usb-audio for the
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EasyCAP's audio channel, and its installation can be aided by providing a
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file in directory /etc/modprobe.d with content:
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options easycap gain=16 bars=1
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install easycap /sbin/rmmod snd-usb-audio; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install easycap
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ACKNOWLEGEMENTS AND REFERENCES
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This driver makes use of information contained in the Syntek Semicon DC-1125
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Driver, presently maintained at http://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver/
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by Nicolas Vivien. Particularly useful has been a patch to the latter driver
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provided by Ivor Hewitt in January 2009. The NTSC implementation is taken
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from the work of Ben Trask.
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